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WASHINGTON — The White House threatened Wednesday to veto a Republican bill to overhaul the widely criticized No Child Left Behind law, calling the effort “a significant step backwards.” The veto threat came as lawmakers were set to...

Tamara Gordon leads her 8th grader students in a history lesson during class in an overflow classroom at Beltsville Academy in Maryland, Oct. 5, 2010. Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The White House is threating...

The face of America, seen in its younger generations, is changing. By 2060, it is projected that nearly two-thirds of all the children born in the U.S. will be non-white. Photo of then-candidate Barack Obama at Dartmouth College in 2008 by Jason...

File photo of then-U.S. Consul General Katherine Dhanani (second from right) visiting the Barkas area in the old city of Hyderabad, India, on Nov. 30, 2010. Dhanani was nominated on Feb. 24, 2015, to be the U.S. ambassador to Somalia. Photo by Noah...

Apple just showed off its new, diverse emoji for the first time http://t.co/0Y65NidRKs pic.twitter.com/fvYHhSFBMG
— Yahoo Tech (@YahooTech) February 23, 2015
Apple unveiled a beta version of new, non-white emoji options yesterday, spurring a...